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Marseille aim to put pressure on PSG with top of the table power move
After a turbulent start to the season to say the least that involved a locker room brawl and some hastily arranged big-name departures, the mighty Marseille and their demanding supporters are now enjoying some of the club's best results in years.
Over the past two weeks, the Ligue 1 legends were a dubious penalty away from holding Real Madrid at the Bernabeu in the
Champions League. Marseille then went on to bury a few demons by beating PSG in Le Velodrome in Le Classique, followed by overcoming a tough Strasbourg team on the road.
Marseille then wrapped up all this with bow by returning to the Champions League and then demolishing Ajax in the second match day. The club’s normally hard-to-please coach, Roberto de Zerbi, called that particular performance “close to perfection.” High praise indeed from the Italian.
The next match in Ligue 1 on Saturday away at Metz is the theoretically the easiest challenge so far this season. A win could leave Marseille at the top of the standings going into the international break, should PSG and Lyon above them lose this weekend.
Roberto de Zerbi’s side are traveling to take on a Metz team who are bottom of the Ligue 1 standings and without a single win from the six matches played this season.
American forward, Timothy Weah, will be looking for his first Ligue 1 goal of the campaign, ahead of his call up by Mauricio Pochettino for the latest USMNT squad. The game against Metz will be one of the best chances to hit this mark.
Elsewhere in Marseille’s forward line, the 36-year-old Pierre Emerick Aubameyang will keep turning back time in a season where he has scored seven goals for both Marseille and Gabon.
